1 Peacekeepers withdrawn: The Philippine government said Saturday that it would bring home its peacekeeping forces from the Golan Heights amid the deteriorating security in the region and withdraw its troops from Liberia because of the Ebola outbreak. The 331 Filipino U.N. troops in the Golan Heights will be sent home after their tour of duty ends in October and the 115 peacekeepers in Liberia will be "repatriated as soon as possible," Department of National Defense spokesman Peter Paul Galvez said. In March 2013, Syrian rebels seized 21 Filipino peacekeepers and abducted four others two months later. They were all subsequently released.

2Capsized boat: A boat carrying at least 250 migrants capsized off the Libyan coast near the capital Tripoli, officials said Saturday. Sixteen people were rescued after the coast guard was alerted late Friday. The body of an 18-month-old child was pulled from the water as rescue operations continued off the shore of al-Qarbouli, 30 miles east of Tripoli. The migrants were trying to reach Europe on a perilous journey that kills scores of people every year.

3 Military confrontation: The Chinese government on Saturday rejected the Pentagon's claim that a People's Liberation Army fighter jet had buzzed dangerously close to a U.S. surveillance plane in international air space, and it warned that frequent surveillance flights were risking an accident near the Chinese coast. The statement came in response to the Pentagon's complaint about the air encounter, which took place Tuesday. Rear Adm. John Kirby said the Chinese jet approached a U.S. Navy P-8 Poseidon plane, flying alongside with the planes' wingtips less than 30 feet apart, and then performed a maneuver so that the American pilot could see the Chinese jet's weapons. The encounter was "very dangerous," Kirby said.

4 Satellite malfunction: European space officials said Saturday that they are investigating how the inaccurate deployment of two satellites will impact their efforts to develop a new Galileo navigation system that would rival America's GPS network. The European Space Agency and launch company Arianespace said the satellites ended up in off-target orbits after being launched Friday from French Guiana. Saturday's agency statement did not say whether the orbital paths could be corrected. The European Union hopes to have its 30-satellite Galileo navigation network operating fully by 2020.

5 Mining protest: Several thousand people formed a human chain Saturday across the German-Polish border to protest the expansion of mining for brown coal in the region. Organizers said more than 7,500 people linked up between Kerkwitz, Germany, and Grabice, Poland - two villages that activists fear will be evacuated to make way for further brown coal mines, also known as lignite. Some demonstrators waded into the Neisse River, which divides the two countries. Lignite is decried as a dirty fuel by environmentalists.

6 Earthquake: A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck the region around Valparaiso, Chile, on Saturday night, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. There were no immediate reports of serious injuries or damage from the quake, but electricity and telephone services were interrupted in some areas. The temblor was centered 11 miles northwest of the community of Hacienda La Calera, around 73 miles from the capital of Santiago. It hit at a depth of about 19 miles.